Author: gdalziel
Date: 2009-08-02 13:24:37 -0600 (Sun, 02 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 7926
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml
Log:
Updated Ghostscript explanations.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml 2009-08-02 12:18:06 UTC (rev 7925)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/printing/gs.xml 2009-08-02 19:24:37 UTC (rev 7926)
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
<para>If you have <application>JasPer</application> installed on your
system
and you would like to use it with <application>GPL
Ghostscript</application>,
- then we must first remove the local copy and apply a patch:</para>
+ first remove the local copy and apply a patch:</para>
<screen><userinput>rm -rf jasper &&
patch -Np1 -i ../ghostscript-&gs-version;-system_jasper-1.patch
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
+ln -sv /usr/share/ghostscript/&gs-version;/doc
/usr/share/doc/ghostscript-&gs-version;
+</userinput></screen>
<para>To install the shared library
<filename class='libraryfile'>libgs.so</filename>, run the
@@ -183,6 +185,9 @@
<application>Ghostscript</application> interface headers in place to link
to the shared library. These commands install the headers.</para>
+ <para><command>ln -sv ... /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-8.64</command>: This
puts
+ the documentation where it is expected to be found.</para>
+
<para><command>ln -v -s ghostscript /usr/include/ps</command>: Some
packages expect to find the interface headers in an alternate
location.</para>
@@ -212,24 +217,36 @@
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="afplgs-prog-gs">
+ <varlistentry id="gplgs-prog">
<term><command>gs</command></term>
<listitem>
- <para>invokes <application>Ghostscript</application>, an interpreter
- of Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and Portable Document Format
- (PDF) languages.</para>
- <indexterm zone="gs afplgs-prog-gs">
+ <para>is an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript(tm) and
Portable Document Format
+ (PDF).</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gs gplgs-prog">
<primary sortas="b-gs">gs</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="libgs.so">
+ <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgs.so</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>provides <application>Ghostscript</application> functionality
+ to other programs, such as <application>GSView</application>,
+ <application>ImageMagick</application>, and
+ <application>libspectre</application>.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="gs libgs.so">
+ <primary sortas="c-libgs.so">libgs.so</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
- <para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> provides many different
- scripts used to render PostScript/PDF files back and forth. Please refer
- to the HTML documentation or try <command>man gs</command> for information
- about the capabilities provided by the package.</para>
+ <para><application>GPL Ghostscript</application> provides many different
+ scripts used to convert PostScript, PDF, and other formats. Please refer to
+ the HTML documentation or the man pages for information about the
+ capabilities provided.</para>
</sect2>
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